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NEWS<p></p>
<p>10/09/04 - Lance Christopher's Forum is up and running! Be sure and stop
in to leave Lance and his team a note and check out "Lance's Posts".
Lance has posted a cool message to encourage you and bless (and it's just
good reading)!</p>
<p><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">10/01/04
- Today Lance Christopher's debut album SAVED BY A WOMAN is available
for purchase from his artist website www.lancechristopher.com. Dennis
VanHove, spokesman for Torn Sky Records, stated, "Saved by a Woman
is an album rich in creativity and depth. Lance's incredible vocal delivery
weaves his diverse collection of songs into a complete, satisfying whole.
From the good time <em>Baby We're Gone</em>, the stark candor of <em>It's
Been a Long Time Comin</em>', the groove of <em>Heaven Gets Down</em>,
the triumph of <em>I Defy Gravity</em>, to the soaring finale of <em>The
Poetry in My Emotions</em>, (and every song in between) the album is riveting.
We are very proud of Lance Christopher, the musicians and the producer,
Ernie Petrangelo."</font></p>
<p>In November of 2004, the album will be available from regular brick &
mortar outlets as well as iTunes, Launch, Rhapsody, and other digital
outlets.<br>
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09/20/04 - Torn Sky Records unveils a fresh program to keep fans in direct
contact with their artist’s creativity. In a phone interview, Dennis
VanHove, Chief Manager of Torn Sky Records’ parent company, VanWatkins,LLC,
explained, </font></p>
<p><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">“We
wanted to break down the wall between the singer/songwriter’s creativity
and his fan base. Traditionally, fans must wait for an album before they
can enjoy new music... And even then they only get to hear the few songs
that make the album. We asked the question “why?”. With new
technologies and the accessibility of the internet, we will offer EVERY
song the artist creates from guitar/vocal demo to finished product directly
to the fan along with lots of video commentary and a whole bunch of extra
cool stuff! </font></p>
<p><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We
call the program “Patron Saints” and we allow the fan to become
a patron of the arts. We believe a Patron Saint is what a fan is really
meant to be and Lance Christopher is the perfect artist to launch the
program. He is very prolific and articulate, his art stretches into quite
a few different areas, he cares a lot about his fans... actually, he just
loves people and welcomes the opportunity to... well... to bring his fans
into his creative world.” </font></p>
<p><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Dennis
VanHove’s enthusiasm is contagious. And as the music industry at
large wrestles with the challenges that have come with P2P filesharing
and illicit downloading, Torn Sky Records says that they aren’t
concerned and instead they are embracing technology as a way to add intimacy
and immediacy to the fan 2 artist relationship. He continued,</font></p>
<p><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">“We
have worked hard to make the “Patron Saints” program an unbelievable
value... It’s just a modest yearly subscription fee that opens up
an unbeatable package of benefits, quality merchandise, gifts, pre-releases,
autographed member’s only collector’s albums, and there’s
a whole lot more. It even gives members a voice in which songs will be
on Lance’s future albums to be released to the general public! New
technologies have thrown open the window of possibilities for the artist
and the fan to connect in fresh ways. It’s really about being a
part of each other’s lives.”</font></p>
<p><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">“</font><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Patron
Saints” memberships will be available starting October 1st, 2004
with additional incentives for the first 250 members.<br>
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<font color="#FFFFFF">09/14/04 - Torn Sky Records and Lance Christopher
agree to offer their first single It’s Been A Long Time</font> <font color="#FFFFFF">Comin,
as a FREE download. </font></font></p>
<p><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Dennis
VanHove, Chief Manager of Torn Sky Records’ parent company, VanWatkins,LLC,
stated,</font></p>
<p> <font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">“We
believe that It’s Been A Long Time Comin’ is a song that needs
to be heard. Lance is a great talent and by offering his first single
as a free download, we hope to increase awareness of the incredible music
he makes.” </font></p>
<p><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The
free download will only be available for a limited time and only from
the artist’s web site, lancechristopher.com and the MP3 site, music.download.com.<br>
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<font color="#FFFFFF">09/10/04 - Lance Christopher’s debut album,
SAVED BY A WOMAN will be available nationally through a distribution agreement
with Artist One Stop. The album will be available the second week of October
in well-kn</font></font><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">own
record outlets like Tower Records, Best Buy, Barnes & Nobles, and
others. Lance says, “If you don’t see it on the shelf, just
order it and encourage your local store to keep it in stock!”<br>
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<p><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
08/23/04 - Lance Christopher’s daughter, Abigail, turns sweet 16
today!</font></p>
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